This is like a hit piece on Zuckerberg over something that nobody would think twice about.
People have said before that TV can bring people together? So fucking what? Do we have a societal expectation that TV discussions all have totally unique ideas behind them?
I thought the summary was strange too, but I took it as Facebook's reaction to more realtime comments showing up in YouTube and other video providers. (Even some of my pirate streams offer a chat window now.)
It's "new" because it's likely aimed at Millennials and younger. Gen-X'ers like me (and older) could give a shit what anyone else thinks while they're watching their favorite show since most of us have used TV at one point or another to AVOID interacting with the people around us.
Anything a platform, used by over 2 billion people, with several more services, that are individually used by over a billion of people, does is newsworthy.
Facebook FBI - Crime has nowhere to hide [on social media] when the FFBI is on the case.
This weeks case: The Troll's Liar. The FFBI DOX a 10 year after he leaves a hurtful comment concerning Zuckerberg liking Spiderman more than Batman.
Good god, what kind of "original" programming could fakebook possibly come up with? Are we gonna see a reboot of Cribs or something equally vain and vapid?
It's literally the ONLY possible way they can just start on day one with 40 "original" series. It's either scraping existing "channels" from youtube, or hiring a bunch of "I wanna be famous" n00blets with shit ideas to create their own "program." I have serious doubts we'll see anything with the quality of a good AMC show or even with the spotty quality of a Netflix original.
better get the fuck out of the IT industry stat, those of us over 30 are dinosaurs and will not make it past interview #2 (if we get to #2) because there are 40 fresh faced little hipsters willing to do that job for an entry level wage.
It's not just facebook my friend, it's basically all of IT.
That may be true for engineers and management. Everything else is outsourced. Outsourced contractors are more interested in finding warm bodies. I had a weekend job as PC disconnect/reconnect for a moving company in 2011, doing a half-dozen assignments at Facebook's Palo Alto locations. I was 42 at the time.
...consists of turning it into television. Everybody (ISPs, especially) seems to want to do this now and it's pretty pathetic that these innovators can't think up something more original. But... it sort of goes hand in hand with the kind of innovative programming one finds on television (or coming out of Hollywood).
Maybe Ursula Le Guin was on to something:
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
The progressives want to use television for more than information or entertainment. They want to use it to shape public opinion and guide society in the right direction. So they will have TV programming followed by a debate where those with those with the right ideas are supported and those with the wrong ones are corrected.
If you read any discussion about TV these days, you'll see everyone over 30 say they are tuning out and turning off because music is more about women shaking their asses and singing abou
I cut the cord a couple of years ago and primarily watch Netflix or Amazon Prime video. Both contain commercial-free content which I am happy to pay for. I do watch TV (over the air) occasionally and the commercials are so pathetically mind numbing that I can't stand them. I often wonder who they are pandering to because I find them so offensive. Which brings me to my point, I won't be watching any streaming crap that contains ads or commercials. So good luck with that facebook.
Have you tried listening to FM radio in a while? It's the same at it used to be but worse, somehow, after getting used to cached internet radio stations sans commercials...
I gave up on FM because of the incessant commercials 15 years ago. I tried again while on vacation, and it's definitely much worse. I don't know how anyone can manage to listen to the radio and not go insane. 25% of air time is commercials or inane talking. The music is overly compressed and every station plays the same songs. Over. And. Over.
Thankfully, one can get music without that crap easily.
TV isn't much better these days. If drug companies and law firms stopped advertising, most cable channels would
Only 25%??!!?? Where do you live. Try using the radio during any normal time commute. I was counting before I quit listening. A 30 minute drive my play two songs. Listen for an hour, and you would hear those two songs again. I did learn a lot about the laughing hyena's bathroom habits, though.
We have a bit a game whenever the family is in the car, as soon as the radio stations stops playing music we flick to the next station looking for another song. These days it's getting harder and harder to find music so we are increasingly switching over to Spotify more and more often.
I like the randomness of radio surfing rather than me choosing a genre as with Spotify, but it is almost impossible to do these days.
At least with cable TV you can DVR to skip commercials, or stream videos without commercials. I'd rather cancel my FB account that watch a single streaming commercial. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are so ad happy that I find I've largely lost the desire to visit them anymore.
I think they are just foaming at the mouth trying to increase their stock price that they'll try any dumb thing. Watching commercials are becoming an artifact of history for video. They are focusing on innovating the past instead of g
Facebook's video play has a massive fatal flaw. If the video loses focus, it automatically pauses. Yup, this means absolutely ZERO multi-tasking at all. You're forced to watch the video and nothing else. This is especially frustrating when having multiple monitors. I do a lot of batch work which requires interaction once every 20 seconds or so to launch a new script. It is easy for me to watch a video and keep an eye on the production screen at the same time. Simply clicking on that second window kills the
YET ANOTHER online video streaming service with 'original' programming.
HOLY FUCK.
what the world needs is a 'meta streamer'.. like meta search engines of days-past, that aggregated results from dozens of search engines in one results page.
a streaming service that puts all the 'free' content you would ever care to browse/search/view in one spot, along with all the programming options from the paid services. ONE site, ONE service, ONE bill (if applicable, split between the site to cover costs and the programmi
They're not QUITE there yet, but Pluto TV is kind of like this. I found it on my Roku and was impressed. They take a bunch of content from various websites and create channels and a programming schedule from it, and then present it to you much like a cable TV schedule is laid out. It's possible to flip channels like the old analog cable boxes would let you do. The content is mostly crap, but the presentation and idea are fantastic.
I'm not either, but I'm interested in how FB seems to be trying to be the everything guy. And what happens when you try to please everyone...
This is only going to end in bloat and then user will look elsewhere. While FB is popular now, so have lots of things that now aren't. I think this approach to try and do everything will ultimately be the end of them.
We didn't want disney to do it's own network, we barely tolerate hulu which is consumer-antagonistic in its practices.
There's a reason a lot of us have deleted our facebook accounts, and that's because facebook does a piss poor job of managing its feed as-is. If you think this sort of gimmick will bring us back, you're wrong.
Too much clutter, too much video, too many massive pictures when it's meant to be a plain text update. A single non-scrolling page is all they get from me now
WTF? (Score:0)
This is like a hit piece on Zuckerberg over something that nobody would think twice about.
People have said before that TV can bring people together? So fucking what? Do we have a societal expectation that TV discussions all have totally unique ideas behind them?
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It's "new" because it's likely aimed at Millennials and younger. Gen-X'ers like me (and older) could give a shit what anyone else thinks while they're watching their favorite show since most of us have used TV at one point or another to AVOID interacting with the people around us.
Slow day? (Score:1)
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I disagree. Did you know that all the people on this planet breathe O2? While this is true, it is not newsworthy.
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Actually that was pretty big news when they discovered the biochemistry behind respiration, it's just not newsworthy anymore.
Re: Slow day? (Score:0)
If it were to change it would be pretty big fucking news, no ?
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Not just facebook, but "Facebook FB" as the summary puts it.
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This weeks case: The Troll's Liar. The FFBI DOX a 10 year after he leaves a hurtful comment concerning Zuckerberg liking Spiderman more than Batman.
Watch (Score:0)
"Watch" what a creepy name, coming from FaceBook.
Who watches the watcher? You already know the answer to that.
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Then again, it was Facebook that did a naming faceplant on "Graph".
Facebook TV (Score:0)
Good god, what kind of "original" programming could fakebook possibly come up with? Are we gonna see a reboot of Cribs or something equally vain and vapid?
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It's literally the ONLY possible way they can just start on day one with 40 "original" series. It's either scraping existing "channels" from youtube, or hiring a bunch of "I wanna be famous" n00blets with shit ideas to create their own "program." I have serious doubts we'll see anything with the quality of a good AMC show or even with the spotty quality of a Netflix original.
More things (Score:0)
More things to block with ublock origin
No interest in watching age discrimination succeed (Score:1)
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FB uses cult psychology, so it's no shock they'd use that in the workplace too. It's easier to indoctrinate the young.
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better get the fuck out of the IT industry stat, those of us over 30 are dinosaurs and will not make it past interview #2 (if we get to #2) because there are 40 fresh faced little hipsters willing to do that job for an entry level wage.
It's not just facebook my friend, it's basically all of IT.
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So innovation on the internet nowadays... (Score:2)
...consists of turning it into television. Everybody (ISPs, especially) seems to want to do this now and it's pretty pathetic that these innovators can't think up something more original. But... it sort of goes hand in hand with the kind of innovative programming one finds on television (or coming out of Hollywood).
Maybe Ursula Le Guin was on to something:
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The progressives want to use television for more than information or entertainment. They want to use it to shape public opinion and guide society in the right direction. So they will have TV programming followed by a debate where those with those with the right ideas are supported and those with the wrong ones are corrected.
If you read any discussion about TV these days, you'll see everyone over 30 say they are tuning out and turning off because music is more about women shaking their asses and singing abou
Weird corollary (Score:2)
Hey, kind of like human society in general.
Saying that, this is certainly not how I experienced television when I used to watch it. Interactions went a little more like...
Damn Dude! (Score:0)
Cash in and go home already!
Not Interested (Score:3)
I cut the cord a couple of years ago and primarily watch Netflix or Amazon Prime video. Both contain commercial-free content which I am happy to pay for. I do watch TV (over the air) occasionally and the commercials are so pathetically mind numbing that I can't stand them. I often wonder who they are pandering to because I find them so offensive. Which brings me to my point, I won't be watching any streaming crap that contains ads or commercials. So good luck with that facebook.
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I gave up on FM because of the incessant commercials 15 years ago. I tried again while on vacation, and it's definitely much worse. I don't know how anyone can manage to listen to the radio and not go insane. 25% of air time is commercials or inane talking. The music is overly compressed and every station plays the same songs. Over. And. Over.
Thankfully, one can get music without that crap easily.
TV isn't much better these days. If drug companies and law firms stopped advertising, most cable channels would
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Only 25%??!!?? Where do you live. Try using the radio during any normal time commute. I was counting before I quit listening. A 30 minute drive my play two songs. Listen for an hour, and you would hear those two songs again. I did learn a lot about the laughing hyena's bathroom habits, though.
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I like the randomness of radio surfing rather than me choosing a genre as with Spotify, but it is almost impossible to do these days.
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At least with cable TV you can DVR to skip commercials, or stream videos without commercials. I'd rather cancel my FB account that watch a single streaming commercial. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are so ad happy that I find I've largely lost the desire to visit them anymore.
I think they are just foaming at the mouth trying to increase their stock price that they'll try any dumb thing. Watching commercials are becoming an artifact of history for video. They are focusing on innovating the past instead of g
Fatal Flaw (Score:2)
Facebook's video play has a massive fatal flaw. If the video loses focus, it automatically pauses. Yup, this means absolutely ZERO multi-tasking at all. You're forced to watch the video and nothing else. This is especially frustrating when having multiple monitors. I do a lot of batch work which requires interaction once every 20 seconds or so to launch a new script. It is easy for me to watch a video and keep an eye on the production screen at the same time. Simply clicking on that second window kills the
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Maybe you can use a nested X server to contain the facebook browser.
just what we need (Score:0)
YET ANOTHER online video streaming service with 'original' programming.
HOLY FUCK.
what the world needs is a 'meta streamer'.. like meta search engines of days-past, that aggregated results from dozens of search engines in one results page.
a streaming service that puts all the 'free' content you would ever care to browse/search/view in one spot, along with all the programming options from the paid services. ONE site, ONE service, ONE bill (if applicable, split between the site to cover costs and the programmi
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They're not QUITE there yet, but Pluto TV is kind of like this. I found it on my Roku and was impressed. They take a bunch of content from various websites and create channels and a programming schedule from it, and then present it to you much like a cable TV schedule is laid out. It's possible to flip channels like the old analog cable boxes would let you do. The content is mostly crap, but the presentation and idea are fantastic.
nopers (Score:0)
Don't give a shit. Fuck Zuck and his gaping Internet anus shitting out fake Russian shitposters on democracy.
Ummmm.... (Score:1)
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Don't care, not on Facebook.
I'm not either, but I'm interested in how FB seems to be trying to be the everything guy. And what happens when you try to please everyone...
This is only going to end in bloat and then user will look elsewhere. While FB is popular now, so have lots of things that now aren't. I think this approach to try and do everything will ultimately be the end of them.
Stop. (Score:2)
Just Stop.
We didn't want disney to do it's own network, we barely tolerate hulu which is consumer-antagonistic in its practices.
There's a reason a lot of us have deleted our facebook accounts, and that's because facebook does a piss poor job of managing its feed as-is. If you think this sort of gimmick will bring us back, you're wrong.
Mountain View (Score:2)
The Mountain View, Calif., social network is hoping to tap into lucrative TV advertising revenue to boost its ever-expanding bottom line
Facebook is not based in Mountain View. I suspect you confused with another California-based GAFA.
better hurry (Score:2)
Need To Know (Score:0)
What's 'Facebook'?